Desktop pulldown "Applications/Office" has reference to "Evolution" after I removed Evolution

Bug #118898 reported by Xeno Campanoli
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
evolution (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Package evolution-common creates an entry on Applications/Office menu but does not provide the binaries the menu entry points to.

This is obliquely related to wishlist item 30692

The second occurrence of Evolution in the Office compound pulldown menu does not disappear when I remove Evolution. I see this on my desktop and on my laptop.

1. Install Feisty as a workstation.
2. Install Thunderbird as mail program.
3. Remove Evolution as mail program.

Result:
a. Evolution disappears from Internet section pulldown of Applications.
b. Evolution does not disappear from Office section pulldown of Applications.

Note: One machine where I did this was from a complete bottom up install. The other was upgraded with apt-get from Edgy. I removed Evolution from both after the upgrade.

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Xeno Campanoli (xeno) wrote :

I guess it's also important to say the diagnostic popup the evocation icon results in:

(warning red circle with white dash)
Could not launch menu item

Failed to execute child process
"evolution -2.10" (No such file or directory)
(and an okay button)
Please request a screen shot if that's necessary.

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Xeno Campanoli (xeno) wrote :

I'm no longer seeing this, so I'll presume it was fixed and mark it so.

Changed in xorg:
status: New → Fix Released
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Joseph Piché (josephpiche) wrote :

I am changing this to confirmed because it was evidently was not fixed. Upon a fresh install of gutsy from a daily build (20070921.1) "apt-get remove evolution" removes all occurrences in the menus accept for the "Applications/Office" menu.

Changed in xorg:
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

That's because the menu entry is in the evolution-common package and you didn't remove this one

Changed in evolution:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Space (spacemonkey) wrote :

A workaround for this "bug":

sudo rm /usr/share/applications/evolution.desktop

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Nick White (r-launchpad-njw-me-uk) wrote :

This is still an issue for me on Hardy, even after evolution and evolution-common have been removed via synaptic.

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Henti Smith (henti) wrote :

just did a fresh install on hardy and removed evolution and the menu item in office is still there.

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Leo (leorolla) wrote :

The 3rd anniversary of this bug is coming.

description: updated
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Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Also affects Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, see bug #585070.

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Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de) wrote :

bug from 2007 - version not longer supported
change status to invalid

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
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